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Washington is one of the handful of states that established their own exchange marketplace, known as Washington Healthplanfinder, putting it outside the group of states targeted in the King v. Burwell case — those that use the federal exchange called HealthCare.gov.

On Monday, a team of researchers tracing the history of HIVsaid that the virus originated in humans on 13 separate occasions, evolving in humans from ancestral viruses that infected monkeys, chimpanzees and gorillas.